Do Not Pay

Do Not Pay (DNP) operates a resource dedicated to preventing and detecting improper payments.

DNP is authorized and governed by the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA), and several Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memoranda and circulars. The authorities generally belong to OMB, which delegated the operational aspects to the Department of the Treasury.

The Working System and DNP together create one element of the larger multi-agency government-wide DNP Initiative and centrally provides a variety of data matching and data analytics services to support agency programs in their efforts to prevent and detect improper payments.

How Does Do Not Pay Work?

Agencies use a secure online interface to check various data sources to verify eligibility of a vendor, grantee, loan recipient, or beneficiary to receive federal payments. To get all the details, watch the short video. NOTE: Payment Integration only checks against death data sources.

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Components of DNP

Web-based Portal

The DNP Portal lets you search multiple databases at one time. You can search for a single person or entity. You can batch your searches. You can set up so that the Portal regularly monitors the databases for specific names.

Data Analytics

Provides advanced payment analysis services to federal agencies. In partnership with the federal agencies, a variety of data analysis and visualization can be conducted to help combat improper payments.

Agency Support

Works with agencies to onboard, determine, and target the best DNP processes and data sources to meet agencies’ program needs.

Four Times to Use DNP

Our mission is to protect the integrity of the federal government’s payment processes by assisting agencies in mitigating and eliminating improper payments in a cost-effective manner while safeguarding the privacy of individuals.

Pre-award

Before you start to pay, search DNP to make sure it’s okay to pay this person or company.

Pre-payment

Check again throughout the time this person or company is getting payments, or set up to monitor their eligibility. You can also research matches.

At Time of Payment

Any funds disbursed by the Department of the Treasury go through Payment Integration, in which the DNP Portal automatically matches all PAM files against available death data sources. Read more about what DNP searches.